LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s personal doctor administered a powerful anesthetic to help him sleep, and authorities believe the drug killed the pop singer, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Monday.
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Wacked-up Over Jacko
From the Fort Worth Weekly
by Jimmy Fowler
“Breaking News: Michael Jackson Still Weird and Still Dead!”
CNN plays continuously throughout the day at my house as a kind of background noise. The amount of coverage being given to Jackson’s death is smothering, and I can only assume it resembles the rest of the cable news universe’s bug-eyed, salivating leer over every detail of this artist’s sad life and sudden death. Yesterday, anchors interrupted a discussion about the possibility of a post-U.S. withdrawal civil war in Iraq for the “breaking news” that Jackson’s memorial would go forward at Staples Center in LA. And there’s no sign that this particular “news cycle” is about to play itself out — a little while ago, CNN announced it would begin all-day coverage of Jackson’s Tuesday memorial starting at 6 am.
Post-traumatic stress disorder has begun to set in. I’m having flashbacks of 1982, when you had to avoid all public places, shut off the TV and the radio, and pull down the blinds if you wanted a brief escape from the “Thriller” single.
I enjoy the sugar jolt that comes from entertainment news and tabloid “revelations”—they’re like the Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls of cultural awareness. But any eight year old can tell you that a whole box of them consumed in under an hour will make you puke. My question to cable news producers is: At long last, have you no gag reflex?
Filed under General Topics, health, music, weired news
The changing faces of Michael Jackson
Take a look at the many changes of Michael Jackson’s face.
more about “The changing faces of Michael Jackson“, posted with vodpod
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The Death Trifecta marches on
It’s no secret that death seems to visit popular people in three’s.
This week was no exception.
What is the strange phenomenon that is the Death Trifecta?
I think about it and ask myself, ok, you have to qualify as famous. That goes with out saying. Sometimes what’s famous to one person isn’t famous to another. But this week, there can’t be too much debate there because all three of this week’s Trifecta were all certainly famous.
And this certainly isn’t the first time for the Trifecta. In fact, it happens pretty frequently.
Why the number three?
Maybe it’s a signal to start paying attnetion to the Holy Trinity?
And here is another item I was thinking about today. In this age of Twitter, and Facebook, and instant messaging, why did it take so long to get a confirmation on Michael Jackson’s death?
I would have never imagined MJ having a heart attack at 50. I thought he was in shape!
I’m hoping they are all in a better place tonight. As a tribute, I leave you with this:
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